Literature of the Western World

Dr. Bill Fleming
Office: 204 Evans Complex
Phone: 294-1432
Email: eng_wpf@shsu.edu
Office hours: 7:15 am-8:00 am daily; 10:00-10:50 daily; after classes; most afternoons (please call); by appointment

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Find information on any character in Greek Drama Bulfinch's Mythology Department of Classics at Temple University

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Schedule of Assignments

• Texts: The Odyssey, trans. by E. V. Rieu; The Oresteia, trans. by Phillip Vellacott; The Thebian Plays, trans. by E. F. Watling; The Inferno, trans. by John Ciardi
• NOTE: The links to works here are not the same translations that we are using in our texts, but all works are complete at these sites and may be used if you want.

• Week 1: Introduction; Background of Greek Mythology
• Week 2: Background: discussion of The Iliad, complete text
  • Many drawings and works of art focusing on scenes and images from The Iliad
  Aeschylus: The Oresteia: "Agamemnon" (Translated by E.D.A. Morshead)
• Week 3: The Oresteia: "Choephori" (translated by E.D.A. Morshead), "Eumenides" (translated by E.D.A. Morshead)
• Week 4: Test on The Oresteia
• Week 5: Homer: (The translations of both The Iliad and The Odyssey at the sites below are by Samuel Butler.) Discussion of The Iliad and the epic; The Odyssey: Books I-VII
• Week 6: Homer: The Odyssey: Books IX-XVI
• Week 7: Homer: The Odyssey: Books XVII-XXIV
• Week 8: Test on The Odyssey
• Week 9: Tragedy; Sophocles: The Thebian Plays: "Oedipus Rex"
• Week 10: Sophocles: "Oedipus at Colonus," "Antigone"
• Week 11: Test on The Thebian Plays
• Week 12: Dante: "The Inferno" (An interesting site focusing on Dante entitled "Renaissance Dante in Print," compiled by Professors Theodore Cachey, Louis Jordan, and Christian Dupont of Notre Dame and Mark Olsen of the University of Chicago); another site focusing on "The Inferno"
• Week 13: Dante: "The Inferno"
• Week 14: Dante: "The Inferno"; Optional Paper Due on 11/23; Thanksgiving break
• Week 15: Test on Dante
• Week 16: Last week of school; review for final
• Final exams scheduled:
  • Section 01 (8-9 MWF): Friday, Dec. 12, 8:00-10:00 am
  • Section 03 (9-10 MWF): Tuesday, Dec. 16, 8:00-10:00 am